GE’s PC Olympics

Jul 31, 2012

RUSH: Did you see, Saudi Arabia has allowed two women to be on the Olympic team, and one of them, I think, competes in judo. And the Saudis told the Olympic committee, the IOC, the International Olympic Committee, you must let our female judo competitor wear a hijab, a head scarf. And the IOC relented. It is not allowed in judo because it could end up being used as a weapon for choking, for example. But they relented, and they’re letting the Saudi babe, err, woman, wear her hijab because it’s required that her head be covered in public. I kid you not. They did relent. I don’t know when the competition is. I haven’t checked. I have all that stuff available on my iOS devices. I haven’t looked when judo is. But it kind of boggles the mind, the fear that exists and the resulting political correctness.

CALLER: I have been watching the Olympics on NBC, and GE has a very wonderful commercial about neonatal equipment that was used in the United States in a hospital I believe in Maryland, and the hospital, when they upgraded their equipment, donated the equipment to a neonatal unit in East London.

CALLER: And they should have had a thank you card to the people of the United States.

RUSH: And you saw an ad where GE is giving used neonatal care devices to the British?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Fascinating.

CALLER: Yes, it is.

RUSH: Absolutely fascinating. So they take our hand-me-downs?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: And then they throw ceremonies to themselves.

CALLER: That’s correct.

RUSH: You know, General Electric still owns 49% of NBC. Comcast owns 51%. So GE, it’s kind of like they’re paying themselves. GE’s the leading sponsor of the Olympics, then they paid for the rights. They paid 49% of $1.2 billion. I wonder if that means they couldn’t sell it to anybody else and they had to go —